Adjunct professor

(noun)

a professor who does not hold a permanent, tenured or full-time position at that particular academic institution.

Related Terms

  • tenure
  • Teaching assistant or teacher's aide (TA)

Examples of Adjunct professor in the following topics:

  • Teaching as a Professor or Lecturer

    • Under the designation of non-tenured position, falls the role of adjunct professor.
    • An adjunct professor is a professor who does not hold a permanent or full-time position at that particular academic institution.
    • An adjunct is generally not required (or permitted) to participate in the administrative responsibilities at the institution expected of other full-time professors, nor do they generally have research responsibilities.
    • In some cases, an adjunct may hold one of the standard ranks in another department, and be recognized with adjunct rank for making significant contributions to the department in question.
    • Thus, one could be an "associate professor of physics and adjunct professor of chemistry. " As of 2013, adjunct professors made up 76% of the American higher education faculty; receiving an average salary of $2,700 per course with little extra benefits.
  • Finding Jobs in Education

    • Many of the professor and administrators at your college will have connections to principles and other leaders in education who are hiring.
    • Another way to get one step closer to a full time job, especially in higher education, is to work as an adjunct professor.
    • An adjunct is generally not required (or permitted) to participate in the administrative responsibilities at the level that the institution expects of other full-time professors, nor do they generally have research responsibilities.
    • However, an adjunct professorship position can provide you with opportunity to work with and learn from established professors and to gain some valuable classroom experience.
    • Serving as an adjunct can be a wonderful starting point for those looking for jobs in higher education.
  • Understanding Tenured Jobs

    • Positions that carry tenure, or the opportunity to attain tenure, have grown more slowly than non-tenure-track positions, leading to a large "academic underclass".For example, most U.S. universities currently supplement the work of tenured professors with the services of non-tenured adjunct professors, academics who teach classes for lower wages and fewer employment benefits under relatively short-term contracts.
    • · Assistant professor: An introductory level professor.
    • · Professor (sometimes referred to as "full professor"): a senior, tenured professor.
    • · Adjunct instructor / adjunct professor / adjunct lecturer Part-time, non-salaried, non-tenure track faculty members who are paid for each class they teach.
    • If they are already a Professor they often have a practical emphasis and go by such terminology as clinical professors, studio professors (in architecture and design) or industry professors (in fields such as engineering and technology).
  • PhD Degree Occupations

    • The format of graduate training may also differ as many of the classes are designed as a seminar rather than a lecture-oriented class - students will come to class meetings having read the assigned readings and then discuss them under the supervision of a professor.
    • Adjunct instructing is another option, which is usually teaching on a contract basis.
    • Of those in academia, as of April 2008, the average sociology faculty salary was $68,857, ranging from assistant professors making $53,844 to full professor earnings of $87,938.
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